Socket for dippers



No. 623,319. Patented A r. I8, 1899. a. w. 'KNAPP.

SOCKET FOR DIPPEBS.

(Application filed Sept. 20, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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SrEORGE KNAPP, OF

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

'SOCKET FOR DIPPERSQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.623,319, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed September 20, 1898. Serial No. 691,430. (No model.)

To It whom it 77t(b Zj concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. KNAPP, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Sockets for Dippers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to means for attaching handles to sheet-metalvessels-such, for instance, as the bowls of dippers; and the object ofthe invention is to produce a simple and cheap device which can beattached to the body or bowl of sheet-metal vessels without usingseparate rivets or solder.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a section View of the dipperbowl and my improved socketabout to be placed in position for attachment. Fig. 2 is a section of aportion of the bowl and the socket in place. Fig. 3 illustrates asection of a portion of the bowl and the socket and shows the partsattached. Fig. 4 is a side VlBW of a dipper-bowl and attached socket anda portion of the handle.

In the drawings the letter A designates the dipper-bowl, b the metalsocket, and c the handle .inserted in the socket. The socket is of theusual shape, having its open end (Z for the reception of the handle 0,and, as usual, is reduced slightly in size at the closed end 6, whichlatter is at an inclination with respect to the walls of the socket. Atits closed end c the socket has a projecting spud or rivet f of lessdiameter than the body of the socket and which extends at a slightinclination with respect to the walls. The closed end around the spud orrivet forms a shoulder. By reference to the drawings it will be seenthat the shoulder g at the closed end has a contour per-body when therivet f is inserted in the hole h, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. After thespud or rivet fhas been inserted in the hole h in the side of thedipper-body, as in Fig. 2, a suitable-power-tool is brought into use toolench or flatten the spud flush or nearly flush with the surface of theinside of the bowl, as in Fig. 3, and attach the socket to the dipper.It will thus be seen that the spud, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, becomes arivet.

The operation is simple and obvious.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A device forattaching handles to bodies of dippers and other vessels, comprising atubular socket having an open end to receive the end of a handle, and aclosed end provided with a spud of less diameter than the body of thesocket and projecting at an inclination around the spud a shoulder, allthese parts being in one piece, said spud adapted to serve as a rivetfor attachment to a vessel-body, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a dipper-bowl having a side hole; and a tubularsocket open at one end to receive a handle and at the other end having aclosed projection with a surrounding shoulder, g, all in one piece-thesaid closed projection fitting in the side hole in the bowl andflattened or clenched flush with the surface of the inside of the bowl,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE W. KNAPP.

Witnesses:

CHAPIN A. FERGUSON, CHARLES E. MANN, Jr.

which will insure a neat fit against the dipwith respect to the walls ofthe socket, and

